Can't properly get metadata for tv shows

[kscircular 1]

I have a puzzling situation. I'm relatively new to Emby and I have it running as a docker container in TrueNas scale.  Functionally, Emby works.  But organizing the media has been a little challenging; especially with collections of tv shows.  I'll take the show "Grimm" as an example.  This show is listed in Imdb, The MovieDB and The TV DB.

My media is organized and named as follows:

/Video

  /TV Shows

   /Grimm

     /Season1

      Grimm (2011) - S01E02 - Bears Will Be Bears.mkv

After the metadata is loaded, all the Grimm episodes are tagged with "The Brothers Grimm".  I looked looked up the IDs for the Grimm TV show and tried replacing the metadata.  I tried using each one separately against IMDB, Movie DB and TV DB respectively and I still don't get the correct metadata.

Here are the IDs I've used:

IMDB: tt1830617

The Movie DB: 39351

The TV DB: 248736

Metadata Plugins Installed: MovieDB, TVDB

This same issue occurs for other series too, like The Office.

Any ideas?

[tedfroop21 55]

Add the year to the show for a start ie: /tv shows/Grimm (2011)/.....

If that doesn't work, go to the Poster in TV shows,  click on the three dots on the bottom of the poster,  and selecting Identify.  Plug in your TVDB id.  It should identify correctly.

Also, I would make a small change to your naming.  Add the year to the show,  and remove punctuation from the show name ie: /tv shows/Grimm (2011)/S01E02 Bears Will Be Bears.mkv.  Punctuation usually identifies special file information so I keep it out of my file names.

My file names are short and sweet.  ie: /tv shows/Grimm (2011)/S01E02.mkv, which is all meta needs to ID the episodes.

One other thing you may not be aware of is sort order.  Grimm has three.  Aired, DVD and Absolute.  I always check against my source to find which sort order on TVDB matches the order of my files.  

To change that order:

- Log into Emby as admin. 

- Click on the gear on the top right

- On the left, scroll down to Metadata Manager.

- Open and go to TV Shows - Show - Your Show Name,  (click on the arrows on the left)

- On the right pane, 5th item down, set the sort order that matches your file order.

 

 

Edited November 16, 2024 by tedfroop21

[Neminem 692]

I user this naming for my folders.

I add year and tvdbid to the folder name.

Twin Peaks (1990) [TvdbId=70533]

[tedfroop21 55]

3 minutes ago, Neminem said:

I add year and tvdbid to the folder name.

Twin Peaks (1990) [TvdbId=70533]

Very useful for some TV series with multiple possible ID's.......

Never had to use it myself as yet though.  Guess I watch stuff that doesn't have multiple shows with the same name......

[Neminem 692]

A show like Charmed - TheTVDB.com and the remake Charmed (2018) - TheTVDB.com

Always got mixed up, until I add [TvdbId=XXXXX] to them.

Even with year in folder name, but that might have been a bug back then.

 

 

[Luke 38825]

@kscircularhas this helped?

[kscircular 1]

Thanks guys.  I've tried out a you suggestions and some work, others don't.  It is most likely that my directory structure and file name formats seems to be all over the place which could be contributing to the issues.  So, I'm sure we a proper cleanup of my directory/files I should have better results.  I wish this could just be done with the metadata built into the file (like EXIF for images, but I don't think video files have such a system).  Anyway, that's all for your help!